Windows Phone Mango Developer Resources

With Microsoft’s continuous effort to help developers work with Windows Phone development, Larry Lieberman over at the Windows Phone Blog has posted a great resource article for developers. Larry is the Product Manager for the Windows Phone App Platform, so it can be guaranteed any article he posts is a hand-in-hand how-to on everything you can do with the Windows Phone platform. With the recent release of Beta 2 of the Mango developer tools, Microsoft also released a very large number of online resources to help you get started leveraging Mango functionality. Lieberman’s initial resources post is the first of many, he promises, of a series that he thinks will provide the most interesting and useful information. Within the coming weeks and months more items will be released at helping developers leverage all the new features in Mango.

Our ‘How To’ index. This is where we link to all of the specific pages within the documentation that explicitly spell out ‘how to’ implement a specific type of developer scenario. Many of these actually map to and spell out the execution of the sample code in the code samples. Some of the most interesting How To documents for Mango features include:

Windows Phone Mango Training Course. Now updated for beta 2 of the SDK. The Windows Phone Mango Training course, (like our previous training course for the initial release of Windows Phone 7), provides you step by step guidance, with complete sample code, demonstrating how to leverage the new developer scenarios in Windows Phone Mango to create a variety of real world applications. For the new training course, we decided to have the various labs all revolve around a single, more useful application, a task manager we called ‘Tidy’. You can get a video introduction to the ‘Tidy’ applicationhere on Channel 9.

The Inside Windows Phone Show on Channel 9. This show is our home on Channel 9, where we’ll provide you video walkthroughs of our new developer features, on a periodic basis. So far, we’ve conducted a number on Mango functionality, including the following: